Charleston, SC - Folly Beach is picking up the trash after this weekend’s festivities. Some city officials say it’s so bad it may push the city to change one of its unique laws.

Folly Beach is the only city in the state to allow alcohol on the beach, but that may change as the city considers banning booze on the beach.

Mayor Carl Beckmann calls the mess a disgrace, as he showed us the photographs taken of the trash. “The sad part is when people went to the beach on Sunday, this is what they found,” Mayor Beckmann said while holding up a photograph of trash mounds.

While Folly Beach allows booze on the beach, Mayor Carl Beckman says this weekend’s trash may lead to a change. Mayor Beckman says the issue will be discussed at city council.

“This is just getting ridiculous. This is nothing more people coming o the beach, what we call day trippers and the day trippers wonder why they have such a bad connotation to their name, that’s why,” Mayor Beckmann said, again holding up another photo of trash. “If we stop drinking, maybe the day trippers will go away.”

But some on Folly are hoping this blows over. Julia Hastings is the general manager at Bert’s Market and she makes her living off of those day trippers.

“We need to be grateful to the day trippers that are coming out here and give us an income and help keep taxes lower for everybody,” Hastings said. “I would think it would affect us terribly. Already with the economy the way it is, I don’t think we’d be able to handle a blow like that.”

Mayor Beckmann says the city can’t handle this kind of trash, so if beach-goers want to keep drinking on the beach, they’ll have to clean up their act.

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